Mavericks ( Patrick Dumont) owner craps on Lukas work ethic

[boogiezen]

Too many excuses. Luka is silent and took the high road. Meanwhile, Dallas org continued to slander him when in fact it's about not giving Luka that supermax. It's about money again. Duh.

[hauntedcomputer]

Dumont work ethic=getting married

[og15]

Shaq?

While talking to Tom Brady on SiriusXM Sports, O’Neal divulged how much he weighed during his prime while on the Lakers. The four-time champion said he weighed 285 pounds as a rookie with the Magic but added some muscle in order to deal with the onslaught of fouls he started to face in the NBA. But then he started to let himself go a bit.

“In our first championship I was 345 [pounds] and then had a great summer, came back 385 for the second one,” O’Neal said. “Last championship I was 415.”

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Of course it's fine for him to have whatever view he wants, but I think there is some question with that. I guess the argument could be that Shaq didn't let himself go until after the first championship lol

[Backcountry]

Yep, that matches Kyrie to a tee: "singular focus to win." I can't remember a time that anyone has accused him of not being willing to do anything to make sure he is available to play, can you?

[JujitsuFlip]

This clown should stick to investment banking and luxury resorts.

Trying to run a professional sports team like a casino or hotel is always gonna be flawed logic.

[AdagioPace]

wow I would have never expected this level of bashing towards one of your goat players. I understand they need to justify to the world their cataclismic brainfart, but throwing Luka under the bus is simply vile. they make it sound like they traded Cousins or Jimmy Butler.

[pipfan]

Luka is one of my least favorite players, but this is SO stupid of the owner. Just take the high road, thank the guy for the incredible play he gave you and move on.
Why are people so stupid?

[HotRocks34]

It's like they want to incinerate all public goodwill as fast as possible.

I can understand defending Nico, but using Shaq as an example of work ethic?

Goodbye credibility.

Luka's skill level is one of the highest in the league. That doesn't happen by itself.

Oh well. Best of luck to them.

It can happen for sure. Lots of super talented guys have preternatural ability to read or execute in the moment, and they'll work to some extent to master things but aren't necessarily 'working hard' in the traditinoal sense. Luka just gets spacing and timing and how to manipulate it with his brain and body, he honed it when younger and it translated beautifully to the NBA. He doesn't need to put in a zillion reps to keep up with that.

Luka does have superior BBIQ, etc and I agree a lot of that is just part of him like other guys have it.

However, Luka's handle, post footwork, trick shots and so forth are the result of years of work. Now it could be that he refined them a long time ago and is slacking today but still they didn't come by themselves.

Recently, Luka has worked more on playing off ball, worked on his free throws and worked on bettering his three point shooting. That doesn't mean he's working as hard as others are, but he's not someone who has stopped progressing his game.

I look at Dumont's criticism here much the same way that I look at people criticizing Luka's overall conditioning. Both Dorian Finney Smith and Markieff Morris recently said something to the effect of you can't put up the numbers Luka does if you're not in shape. You also can't play the minutes that he does without being in shape.

That doesn't mean things can't improve. They probably can. But overselling the points might make Luka's critics look worse than Luka.

For example, people have been pushing the "Luka is 270" thing recently as they pushed "Luka fat" during the summer. Then Luka shows up looking lean in China and the people who said he was fat look silly.

Dumont has to defend Nico, I get that, I'd just tell him to avoid the "doth protest too much" zone.

When you're praising Shaq for his work ethic, you've jumped the shark.

[aliasxn]

The Mavs make it sound like we did them a favor lol

[picc]

Cant get over this.

Imagine dragging a 5 seed to the finals with bleeding knees and no homecourt in any round, and you’re a detriment to the culture.

Really disgusted with this front office group. Spoiled rich brats with no connection to the city. How do Mavs fans go from Mark Cuban to this.

[bisme37]

I mean, at least he's taking some of the heat off of Nico Harrison.

[Handlez]

This stupid ****.

[azcatz11]

The owner also looks overweight. Talking about hard working and this dude looks like a pudgy bastard himself

[IamBBAnalysis]

Yeah the whole FO needs to burn, I hope Luka weecks them every time Lakers face Mavs.

I have not ever been a Luka fan. I am seriously routing and expecting him to just destroy the Dallas organization, visible to all of us on the court. I guess the NBA got what they wanted, more reason to watch. lol.

[Yoshun]

This was about money. The Mavs didn't want to pay the super max.

[Dirk]

Do these guys realize that just STFO is an option?
Why are they bashing Luka every chance they get?
Meanwhile he hasn’t said a word…
Even IF you thought the trade was defensible, which is a huge stretch, there’s no defending this constant bashing of Luka after he’s left.
Just Bush League and doesn’t help your franchise at all. Nothing they’re saying is going to change any minds, it just makes them look like petty aholes.
Someone take their shovel away please, for Mavs fans sake.

The fat Mavs owner, also said this (in the article):

“I’m a big Luka fan. My family are big Luka fans. I have a really deep appreciation for what he brought to this team, what he brought to Dallas, and the excitement he brings. He’s an electrifying player.

“I want you to know I really sympathize with all of our fans who feel hurt. Look, as far as I’m concerned, Luka is a Mav for life and I really wish him nothing but happiness and success in his career as he continues in LA.”

And yes, no one reads anything these days. Many things can be true at the same time... but do check the topic title and how it's biased towards making the idiot owner look even worse than it needs to be while failing to at least try to share the other things this man said (not like fans know him, been here a minute).

[Archx]

Cant get over this.

Imagine dragging a 5 seed to the finals with bleeding knees and no homecourt in any round, and you’re a detriment to the culture.

Really disgusted with this front office group. Spoiled rich brats with no connection to the city. How do Mavs fans go from Mark Cuban to this.

If you read entire thing (which is quite long), Dumont hinted it was basically Nico who saved the Mavs last trade deadline when he got PJ and Gafford. Mavs were 27-23 at that time. But he forgot Mavs had ton of injuries and missing players for extended time (Kyrie, Maxi, Green, etc..). 2-way guys and end of the bench players had to be inserted in to the starting lineups.

Last season success wouldn't even be possible if Luka didn't carry 2 months in a row with a 37/9/10 (63TS%) 39mpg statline. And then Dumont comes out talking about culture and how him and Nico only want to win with the right minded players. Like dude.. your entire season was saved by 1 freaking guy you're now kicking to the curb.

But at least we now know it was ownership who did this, Nico probably didn't even need to convince them a lot.

[JimmyFromNz]

The fact Dumont references 'culture' within those statements is absolute insanity after what just transpired.

Does anyone in the front office leadership have an ounce of emotional intelligence?

[bkkrh]

Have to say, didn't think anything can become more annoying than the Bronny James drama beginning of the season, but the Luka trade has started new dimensions on conspiracy theories. Apparently it's just not possible to have any kind of conversation without some conspiracies in all directions in E-V-E-R-Y S-I-N-G-L-E T-H-R-E-A-D. Political motivation, Lebron the mastermind, secrets about Luka, somehow that's all more realistic than it being a simple Basketball decision.

Can't speak for the other fans, but it's at the moment the main thing that pushes me more and more away from following the NBA and barely watching any Basketball related media content. Think I'll go back to watching some games, highlights and results now and then. Think a lot of conspiracy Basketball fans would have enjoy professional Wrestling a lot more.

I don't see why fan and media noise should keep you from an activity you enjoy, just ignore what people are saying if it detracts from the enjoyment. It's ok to unplug from the narratives that people spin, in fact we all could probably do more of that. The spin machine amplifies outrageous takes in order to drive engagement, it doesn't represent reality very well.

Yeah it doesn't. Was more a thought I had for myself and wrote it down. Basically a "skip certain threads" or just read the main topic reminder . Generally I'm on this board more to get some relevant insights or interesting ideas, not so much the TMZ stuff.

But I guess this is a topic where posts will just go in that direction, because there isn't much to say besides, super unprofessional and ungrateful comment from Dallas.

[Blame Rasho]

Luka is a Mav for life and I really wish him nothing but happiness and success in his career as he continues in LA.

English isn’t my first language but yeah… this makes no god damn sense.